Norvic Philatelics - GB New Stamps and Special Postmarks

Music Giants: Pink Floyd - 7 July 2016

Pink
Floyd are arguably the most visually literate band of all time, as
well as being among the most successful. 2016 marks 50 years
since Pink Floyd turned professional and became the ‘house band’
of the London Underground movement of music and arts, under
original leader Syd Barrett.

They have employed leading image makers for their
iconic album covers, most notably Storm Thorgerson and
Hipgnosis. Their live appearances were legendary and they were
among the first groups to make extensive use of light shows and
projection of films for their appearances, increasing in
ambition over the decades. These two areas are explored in the
stamp set, which has ten stamps in total.

1st class: The Piper at
the Gates of Dawn (1967), Atom Heart Mother (1970) and The Dark
Side of the Moon (1973);
£1.52: Animals (1977), Wish You Were Here (1975) and The Endless
River (2014)

1st class: The UFO Club 1966,
The Dark Side of the Moon Tour (1973)
£1.52: The Wall Tour 1981, The Division Bell Tour 1994.

Premium
Price products.
Dark Side of the Moon Maxi-sheet - limited edition of 10,000 price
£12.95 (face value of stamps £6.40)
Syd Barrett Souvenir Cover with two 1st class stamps, one from the
set one from the MS - limited edition of 3,000 - £24.99
See Royal
Mail's website for these and other special editions

Background

Any Pink Floyd fans will know all
there is to know, which will be much more than the information provided by
Royal Mail, so I am not going to devote much space here.
Technical details:

The 34.5 x 31.5 mm stamps deisgned by Royal
Mail using an original design by Studio Dempsey, responsible for the
original Album Covers stamps
in 2010. Printed by International Security Printers in gravure in
sheets of 50 self-adhesive stamps.
The 192 x 74 mm Miniature Sheet was designed by Royal Mail. Contains
60 x 30 mm stamps on gummed paper, perforated ??, and printed by
International Security Printers in Lithography.